The Fonorow-"S". protocol is largely thanks to "Mike" X (Winner of our Outstanding Achievement Award, and who I hope by now will let me use his full name). Mike discovered the phenomena in his brother and sister. We also honor another severely mercury poisoned woman (Ms. S until I have permission to use her full name) who is very ill and a very low mercury excretor. She has volunteered to be a guinea pig.... We honor in the name of the protocol in case she doesn't make it... (Just kidding, I know she'll read this at some point.)

Notes: We know that cells full of antioxidants can resist injury better, so the idea is to prevent "reprefusion-like" injuries as the mercury is attracted out of the fat cells and expelled. Thus vitamin C to bowel tolerance.

Barry Sears reports cases of the demented coming out of the dementia on this (12-15 g) dosage of Omega/3 fish oils. Omega/3s will also improve the health of cell membranes, making them more permeable to vitamin C.

We start IMD (silica based product that has been shown to lower circulating mercury levels) because the next supplement - ALA - can pull mercury out of fatty cells, but may otherwise deposit it elsewhere.

ALA is fat (and water) soluble and will increase the health of cells, cause even more vitamin C to be absorbed, and may have its own anti-mercury effect.

If herx at this point, may have to start IV antioxidant cleanups/GSH pushes.

At this point the body is primed for a series of the Cathcart-style Sodium Ascorbate drips, which Mike "X" discovered has such an amazing effect reducing pain in his sister. However, we hope to avoid the Herx his sister suffered using the follow-up series of small antioxidant vitamin C drips with a glutathione push at the end. (Something all experience IV docs using Cathcart drips have known since Klenner!!)

We hope to use hair analysis, Quicksilver blood testing, urine challenge testing to verify the effectiveness of this "pain less" protocol.

And of course, we know that a 200 - 300 g cathcart IV will not react if there are no toxins left. So we have a clinical means to measure success!! (If the herx starts, we simply start the slow/small cleanup. Process finished when no cleanup required. Thank you Linux Pauling and thank you Dr. Levy!)

Thoughts, comments, concerns more than welcome! Guinea Pig well into Phase 1, about to start the very high dose Omega/3 oils.

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Mon Nov 21, 2011 4:27 pm

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Re: Fonorow-S. Mercury Brain Detox Protocol

As a report - the woman guinea pig survived the first two IVs! She seems to be functioning with less brain fog. She began her Cathcart Style IVs, and so far has had two 50 g infusions, followed by a slower 3 hour "mop drip." Large "herx-like" reaction to first, but mop up relieved symptoms. Not much reaction to the second infusion.

I notice a difference in her mental function - more clarity, less fog , but she says she does not yet feel well.

There is debate whether vitamin C can actually pull mercury out of the brain, but it does seem very likely, based on the following correspondence with my friend "Mike" (with the mercury poisoned sister) that vitamin C can make oxidized mercury safe in vivo - inert.

This is correspondence from Mike is anecdotal of course, but relevant to this subject:

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Feel free to post this information.

Binding vs neutralizing.

If you expose mercury to ozone in a lab petri dish it will oxidize the mercury. Making the mercury water soluble and inert to the body. The body can then pull it out of the fat and expel it without it touching thousands of cells on the way out..killing them all. VERY VERY FEW THINGS HAVE THE ABILITY TO NEUTRALIZE MERCURY ON CONTACT.

Vitamin c acts in a similar way...and destroys the mercury on contact. So does glutathione. The body takes the inert broken down harmless mercury molecules out of the body. (In reality..not all mercury is 100% neutralized on site..some takes a while..and/or is partially neutralized, but that is better than just binding to the mercury molecules and dragging it through the body destroying everything in its path) NO ONE SEEMS TO KNOW THIS.

Mercury is so dangerous..why on God's earth ..if given a choice would you give a patient a bunch of synthetic molecules in a drug form ...to go into the organs of the body..and the brain..and find the mercury and pull it out into the bloodstream ..that patient is going to go through absolute hell as the mercury ..which is still in its dangerous 100% toxic form destroys every bit of brain tissue or other tissue it touches..and we all know..most of what is bound and pulled out never gets excreted it only gets retoxified as it is absorbed later in the small bowel. IMD is supposed to stop this absorption in the small bowel..but I can tell from the herx from my brother and sister it damn near kills them.

Its almost like scientists are clueless as to how harmful mercury is and are testing experiments on people to see if it works..but can't simply reason to understand that mercury is so destructive you can't move it around the body without destroying its toxicity first. This is why some patients die from chelation and suffer horrible long term side effects..doctors don't have a clue what they are doing..they are simply following what they are told.

The ear insuflation is what really detoxes the brain.

As far as proof that mercury is rendered inert via ozone ..I have the study somewhere in hard drive..if you really want it I'll find it for you.

Vitamin c obviously is as you can do an LD50 test on animals to find the fatal injectible levels of mercury..and with enough iv vitamin c you can completely reverse the fatal response. Not only is it neutralizing the mercury its doing it fast enough to save the animals life..this is in the curing the incurable book.

For now..what I believe is happening is simple..Cathcart saturates and penetrates the tissues of the body so much more effectively that it goes very deep into the fatty tissue and find the poisons stored and pulls them out and neutralizes them..detoxification is retoxification to a point because nothing fully neutralizes them on the spot and some are dragged back into the blood stream causing herx.

That being said..if after Cathcart's vitamin c does its work of pulling the toxins out..then Bioniche's iv given slowly simply goes into the bloodstream and neutralizes JUST WHAT Cathcart's drip pulled into the bloodstream.

Bioniche's is not strong enough to go deep into the fat to pull more toxins out.(we know this because if it could it would cause the same herx that Cathcart's Iv does... its just strong enough...to neutralize whats in the bloodstream..which is perfect for reducing the herx without pulling more toxins out causing more herx.

That is my understanding..i'll let you know how it works out in practice.

Yesterday I gave my sister a 100 gram Cathcart drip...when she started to have herx symptoms ..we started her on homemade lypo immediately..and it helped! That was the mop up effect we were looking for..I'll try it on my brother soon.

GUESS WHAT OWEN..

I just did a 100 gram drip as fast as it would go with my brother last night. Then I did a 12.5 gram over 3 hours after. He said 70% of the herx was reduced. Almost exactly your results!

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Fri Dec 02, 2011 1:12 am

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Re: Fonorow-S. Mercury Brain Detox Protocol

Posting this report in two threads..

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I gave my brother a 100 gram freshly made Cathcart IVC injection last night as fast as it would run. He had the usual symptoms..although less than when we first started 2 yrs ago.. He (within 10 minutes of starting the drip) has intense eye "burning" ..his eyes become blood red..sensitivity to sound, light, and "burning" about the head..overall he can't even tolerate the sound of the TV or any light..all lights have to be shut off. (2 yrs ago when we first started he literally within 10 minutes of the Cathcart drip..(no detox from the mcguff) he His eyes were so red you could barely see the whites of his eyes..He started to burn in his head so badly that he was jerking around ..i thought he may be having a deadly reaction..but knew better and kept the iv in. He was so bad 2 yrs ago he looked like he had just done a ton of crack or PCP. The drugs that were in his brain were actually worse than PCP..benzo's...the worst drug on the planet legal or not. Big pharma teaches docs to give them out like candy.

Normally for weeks..yes I said weeks..he feels like hell afterwards...it would normally take about 2 weeks for him to get over this..

Last night however..thanks to Owen and Dr. Levy..I tried a 25 gram 250cc drip with mcguff's non corn absorbic acid afterwards...within 10 minutes he was starting to feel better..and by 30 minutes..he wanted to watch tv..was laughing and joking and wanted the light back on..his bloodshot eyes cleared up and he was smiling saying he was feeling "happy"

THIS IS NOTHING SHORT OF AMAZING. I have staying with him now for 2.5 years trying to find the answer to detoxify him so that he would be free of "brain burning" when we detoxified with one method or another. I have been trying to detoxify him for 12 yrs!

He woke up this morning feeling good..although not perfect..WAY WAY BETTER than he has ever felt after a drip..normally the next day his eyes are so red he doesn't want to get out of bed..instead he was up and laughing and joking.

We tried the same thing with a slow Cathcart drip a couple days ago..and he was 70% better after the slow Cathcart..but the absorbic acid iv from mcguff was much better at alleviating Herx reaction.

Owen and Dr. LEVY ..THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.

I have spent thousands of hours and countless time and money trying to figure out how to eliminate the poisons in his brain but always hit a wall because he could only do very limited detox..now..I will wipe out the poisons in his brain that he was given from vaccines and years of benzodiazepines and other meds that damn near killed him.

We will try this with my sister soon and let you know.

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I beleive you should continue on with the ALA as long as the IMD product is being used. The ALA takes the mercury out of the cells and into circulation including crossing the blood brain barrier which Mike should look into for his sister. Then the IMD can latch on to it and take it out the back door.

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Sat Dec 03, 2011 5:20 am

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I asked Andy Cutler to comment on Owen's protocol.

terry_2000_2011 wrote:

The owner/moderator at the Vitamin C Foundation doesn't list the dosage amounts or frequency, but I'm assuming he means only once or twice per day for the alpha lipoic acid part of it. If that is accurate this is certainly a protocol to avoid. Would Andy, Joe, Linda, etc. care to comment on this recently published protocol?Is this protocol an example where good intentions aren't enough to formulate a safe, useful detox protocol?

Andy Cutler wrote:

That is certainly a very polite way of putting it.

terry_2000_2011 wrote:

BTW there is an earlier thread at the frequent-dose yahoo group regarding Owen Fonorow, Ph.D.(Computer Science) where Andy wrote:

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Incompetent fools pretending to be health care practitioners will only notice how...

Courtesy, however, is not all that relevant. Chemicals just don't give a $#(†.They do what the laws of nature require they do. If one has some basic knowledge one recognizes this - without adequate knowledge to understand what the questions are it all seems like magic and incantations. That's when it gets dangerous.

I beleive you should continue on with the ALA as long as the IMD product is being used. The ALA takes the mercury out of the cells and into circulation including crossing the blood brain barrier which Mike should look into for his sister. Then the IMD can latch on to it and take it out the back door.

So far, she is much more lucid and has much more mental clarity. (Today she told me that something we are doing is working! If I haven't posted it here, I'll post it again next as the answer to the previous post (which would probably be accurate for people trying to do this without Cathcart-Style IV/C which apparently is necessary and makes the mercury inert!!!)

I did post the "Brother Mike's" post earlier, but again for emphasis

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Binding vs neutralizing.

If you expose mercury to ozone in a lab petri dish it will oxidize the mercury. Making the mercury water soluble and inert to the body. The body can then pull it out of the fat and expel it without it touching thousands of cells on the way out..killing them all. VERY VERY FEW THINGS HAVE THE ABILITY TO NEUTRALIZE MERCURY ON CONTACT.

Vitamin c acts in a similar way...and destroys the mercury on contact. So does glutathione. The body takes the inert broken down harmless mercury molecules out of the body. (In reality..not all mercury is 100% neutralized on site..some takes a while..and/or is partially neutralized, but that is better than just binding to the mercury molecules and dragging it through the body destroying everything in its path) NO ONE SEEMS TO KNOW THIS.

Mercury is so dangerous..why on God's earth ...

The knowledge we seem to be gaining here is vitamin C (and/or ozone and glutathione) can make mercury "inert", thus making it safe to use ALA and other stronger chelators, (esp. with IMD which can remove it via feces). Now glutathione cannot enter cells, so that reduces to Vitamin C and ozone, which makes vitamin C the practical piece of the puzzle. And we believe that is is the Cathcart-Style Sodium Ascorbate which ENTERS cells.

I agree, if one isn't using this form of vitamin C - intravenous infusions - then chelating mercury is VERY dangerous. IV/CC apparently works and safely.

_________________Owen R. Fonorow, Orthomolecular Naturopath

Tue Dec 06, 2011 5:49 am

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Re: Fonorow-S. Mercury Brain Detox Protocol

I asked Mike, (who has the sister who told his uncle...) to summarize why he felt the Cathcart-style vitamin C infusion was so much better than ordinary commercial injectibles.

The answer is relevant to this and other discussions.

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I've told you in other emails..

but in a nutshell..my brother..after taking benzodiazepines and other horrible big pharma meds..lost his ability to concentrate...became very anxious to the point he couldn't look at people..he looked sick all the time.. eyes were bloodshot..lips would become bloody chapped..he was sick..very sick..

no one knew how to get these poisons out of him..and of course mainstream docs are so egotistical and stupid that they would just think it was all psychological..and when I would show them the actual prescribing journal showing the meds can cause these protracted withdrawals..and physical symptoms.... they basically didn't know what to say ..because they were just so used to everyone never questioning them..

My brother..in course of a month..after Cathcart IV's...(mcguff iv's did nothing for him) went from never being coordinated..to able to beat me at tennis..if i wanted to..he could never have scored a point before he did the Cathcart Iv's..after the IV's .and then he was literally beating me out of nowhere..no extra practice..nothing..just boom..his brain started working..do you have any idea how awesome that is for someone that was unable his WHOLE life to come anywhere near my athletic performance..and then all of a sudden become great in 30 days..

he became happier..wittier.. healthier..he started to lose his anxiety and fears..his eyes didn't get as bloodshot his other physical symptoms started to go away..

he's not 100 percent but he is lightyears better than where we started..

my sister had such severe mercury poisoning..her legs were burning so badly she would cry every day..in the worst pain imaginable..docs of course being the geniuses they are..had no idea how to help her

now her arms and legs barely give her any pain in comparison to before..all because of removing the mercury..from sodium ascorbate drips..

What happened was this..i would give a 100 gram cathcart drip..they would go through major herx..then after about a week or 2 would start to feel better ..and in the 3rd week or so..would be in a better state than before the drip. They had to go through the hell of detox..and I couldn't give them back to back drips because they would literally suffer so much it would not be possible..my sister tried a couple times and literally could not move for days.

but after they went through the drips..they would always reach a higher plateau

now with the mop up (slow drip followup) method..i am trying to do many more vitamin c cathcart drips..per month

Once my brother and sister reached the new plateau..they stayed there..because that poison is gone for good...The only thing that brings them down again..is another drip.

Like I said before mcguff..drips at 100gram..10 of them..caused little to no herx at all with my brother..they just didn't effectively get past the blood brain barrier..my sister noticed some herx..but nothing at all compared to the Cathcart.. a lot of her symptoms were in her body ..and that is why she noticed some herx on the mcguff..

Without sodium ascorbate drips..my brother and sister would be dead. My sister would have killed herself because the pain was too much to bare...and my brother would have been in so much suffering he probably would have wound up the same way...or worse. That is horribly morbid but all too true. Watching them suffer was ..well words can't describe how i felt..but it caused me to drop what most would call a perfect life in florida..and dedicate my life full time to finding the answers...

Nothing else was able to truly eliminate the cause of their problems..they are but 2 people...of many millions suffering horribly in silence with no one to turn to...no one that has a fucking clue how to help them..and doctors that turn their back and pass them off to the psychiatrist for another heaping dose of big pharma's drugs that make everything much much worse.

That should answer your questions. Get this Cathcart drip out to the masses. Get it out to Everyone....there is nothing else out there like it.

I told everyone..no one listened..I told Levy, Huggins, you...lots of other MD's..

Get a patent..write a paper..take the credit..I don't care..just get it out there.

Owen..you have it in your power to absolutely unlock the greatest discovery in medical history..with all these poisons in the world...causing so many health problems..no one has a clue how to remove them...they are at best barely tapping into a very very small amount of detoxification..just scratching the surface..if they really were detoxing the body completely..parkinsons.. Alzheimers..ms...als...would disappear..but they aren't..and this is the only way to do it effectively.

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Tue Dec 06, 2011 10:46 pm

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Re: Fonorow-S. Mercury Brain Detox Protocol

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of many millions suffering horribly in silence with no one to turn to...no one that has a fucking clue how to help them..

Makes my blood boil...

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Like I said before mcguff..drips at 100gram..10 of them..caused little to no herx at all with my brother..they just didn't effectively get past the blood brain barrier..

Wait, wait... so, Cathcart-style IVCs are better at getting past the BBB than commercial IVCs?! What other evidence is there for this, and by what mechanism does it happen?

This would explain the tumor necrosis-induced deaths in cancer patients with brain metastases who received IV sodium ascorbate (as reported by Drs. Cameron and Pauling in Cancer and Vitamin C)!!

Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:19 am

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Re: Fonorow-S. Mercury Brain Detox Protocol

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Wait, wait... so, Cathcart-style IVCs are better at getting past the BBB than commercial IVCs?! What other evidence is there for this, and by what mechanism does it happen?

This would explain the tumor necrosis-induced deaths in cancer patients with brain metastases who received IV sodium ascorbate (as reported by Drs. Cameron and Pauling in Cancer and Vitamin C)!!

Brilliant observation. And if you find out the answer before we do, please share! (Mike assumes his BBB theory is true because of the herx (inflammatory brain response) he gets from the Cathcart drips, but not the commercial drips. I remember from Sherry Lewin that DHA is permeable to membranes and the BBB, and perhaps there is more DHA in the Cathcart preparation?

Do you know, were all the drips given by Cameron/Pauling sodium ascorbate?

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Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:18 am

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Re: Fonorow-S. Mercury Brain Detox Protocol

Here's their paper! I haven't had time to read it all but from what I did read it appears to be a comparison of different forms.

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Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:24 pm

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Do you know, were all the drips given by Cameron/Pauling sodium ascorbate?

I believe so. While Cameron and Campbell said in their original report that both the IV product and the oral product were "ascorbic acid", they also said:

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Both the intravenous and the oral formulations we have used contain 57 mequiv. of sodium per... 10 g of ascorbic acid.

And their description of the "oral ascorbic acid" is a mixture containing 100 grams ascorbic acid and 48 grams sodium bicarbonate.

So even though they were a little loose with their terminology (especially in the book*, yikes), it seems they were indeed using sodium ascorbate. Someone else should double-check me on this, though.

*In Cancer and Vitamin C, Cameron and Pauling describe this same treatment variously as vitamin C, ascorbate, sodium ascorbate, or ascorbic acid, with or without the oral/IV clarification. *shakes fist at them*

Sat Dec 10, 2011 9:24 am

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Re: Fonorow-S. Mercury Brain Detox Protocol

pg 130 of the book they say "as sodium ascorbate" referring to the vitamin C they used.

I also went looking for the brain deaths, and while I did not find that exactly, I did read of 3 deaths (they called category 6) that occurred in rapidly growing and metastasized tumors after starting 10 g oral vitamin C (pgs. 163-167). They claim to have corrected this "problem" (large tumors dying too fast) by going to a protocol of 1 g day 1, 2 g day 2, 3 g day 3, etc. as explained on pg 166

thanks johnwen for the paper link

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Sun Dec 11, 2011 6:34 am

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Re: Fonorow-S. Mercury Brain Detox Protocol

ofonorow wrote:

I also went looking for the brain deaths, and while I did not find that exactly, I did read of 3 deaths (they called category 6) that occurred in rapidly growing and metastasized tumors after starting 10 g oral vitamin C (pgs. 163-167).

Yep, Category 6: Tumor Hemorrhage and Necrosis. Two of those dudes were on intravenous C, though, not oral:

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In view of [Mr. X's] rapid downhill course... intravenous ascorbate in a dose regime of 10 g per 24 hours was instituted. Within 36 hours of commencing this form of treatment his clinical status deteriorated alarmingly... leading to his death...

[Mr. Y] was commenced on intravenous ascorbate, 8 g per day, with disastrous results. Within 36 hours (at which time his ascorbate infusion was stopped) the metastasis within his mouth disintegrated, with hemorrhage that could barely be controlled. He became extremely confused, with high fever, and soon lapsed into unconsciousness, and in spite of all the usual resuscitative measures died some 15 days later. An autopsy was performed and the appearances were quite remarkable. He had innumerable metastases scattered throughout the brain, the lungs, and the abdomen, but the striking feature was that all these metastases were dead, and could easily be scooped out.

And although the last guy was taking oral (presumably sodium) ascorbate, he also died from "hemorrhage from brain metastases":

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On the day before [Mr. Z's] planned dismissal he was started on oral ascorbate, 10 g per day. Within 36 hours he suffered an epileptiform convulsion with steadily rising fever and signs of intracranial hemorrhage, leading to death in deep coma some three days later. ...there seems no doubt that the immediate cause of death was hemorrhage from brain metastases...

I'd been wondering why the brain mets showed just as much necrosis as the lung, abdomen, and other mets (since vitamin C entry into the brain is supposed to be rigidly controlled by the blood brain barrier), so the suggestion that sodium ascorbate makes the BBB more permeable is an intriguing hypothesis!

Mon Dec 12, 2011 5:28 am

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Re: Fonorow-S. Mercury Brain Detox Protocol

Obviously, Constipation will block bowel elimination of mercury. And it turns out that people with low bile production tend to have constipation. Some people like my son have extremely low cholesterol. Since cholesterol is required for bile production, it possibly begins to explain why some people like my son have extraordinarily high vitamin C bowel tolerance levels.

IMD has not worked very well for my son. I think that may also be because of his slow bowels. IMD can't do anything with mercury if it is not first delivered via the bile into the small intestine. Slow bowels may partly explain his low tolerance for chelation. All the mercury is forced to go out through the kidneys which readily back up as well. And it may also explain poor tolerance for ALA in some of us whose bowel elimination is inadequate. We are trying to be more regular with using gentian root to boost the bile levels. Have ordered some ox bile to supplement. Also have been using enemas and planning to try colonics.

Thanks for the protocol info! I am eager to try high dose fish oil some day. But I still haven't found a medical person in my local area willing to help me with the cathcart IVs.

Ron

Tue Dec 20, 2011 4:39 pm

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Re: Fonorow-S. Mercury Brain Detox Protocol

scurvyencounters wrote:

Obviously, Constipation will block bowel elimination of mercury. And it turns out that people with low bile production tend to have constipation. Some people like my son have extremely low cholesterol. Since cholesterol is required for bile production, it possibly begins to explain why some people like my son have extraordinarily high vitamin C bowel tolerance levels.

IMD has not worked very well for my son. I think that may also be because of his slow bowels. IMD can't do anything with mercury if it is not first delivered via the bile into the small intestine. Slow bowels may partly explain his low tolerance for chelation. All the mercury is forced to go out through the kidneys which readily back up as well. And it may also explain poor tolerance for ALA in some of us whose bowel elimination is inadequate.

Aha - I'd idly wondered what could cause someone to be a "low mercury excretor". Low cholesterol production makes sense. So the question becomes, can you eat enough dietary (or supplementary) cholesterol to make up for what the liver isn't producing?